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K.U.L.U. - Women and Development

For 37 years KULU - Women and Development(KULU) has been a central player in putting women’s rights and gender equality on the international and Danish development agendas through advocacy, information, and development cooperation in partnership with women’s organisations and networks in the Global South.

KULU–Women and Development is a non-partisan advocacy and development organisation for 23 women´s organisations, women and equality councils of political parties, development NGOs, trade unions, and other civil society organizations and individual members. KULU began working in connection with the first UN International Women’s Conference in 1975 and was officially established in 1976 at the beginning of the UN Decade for Women. KULU has since then been an active contributor to Danish and international development policy and aid discourse and advocacy.

Read more about KULU's background

Read more about the campaign "Enable Girl's and Women's Rights in Mali"

Further reading about our cooperation with MUSONET in Mali

Further reading about our cooperation with FPDH in DR Congo

KULU's vision and mission
Vision: A just and sustainable world order where women in the Global South have access to and control over resources, access to influence and participation in decision-making, and the right to and control over their own bodies, health and lives.

Mission: Put women's rights and gender equality on the agendas of development and trade- and finance-related fora, programs and policies, including the official Danish development, trade and finance cooperation.

KULU's work
KULU-Women and Development works through information, development education, advocacy and lobby, which is based on networking and dialogue with women´s organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and international networks. KULU cooperates strategically in alliances, thematic networks, and projects with Southern partners, linking development education and information work to advocacy and lobby towards politicians and decision-makers.

KULU - Women and Development has a number of theme-based working groups, comprised of board and general assembly members, activists, and volunteers. They are the foundation of KULUs work. All working group members are encouraged to become members of KULU.

·         MDGs & post-2015 development agenda
·         Women’s rights, gender, climate and environment challenges
·         Gender and international trade working group
·         MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa)-group
·         Mali project group
·         DRCongo project group
·         Newsletter editorial group
·         Fundraising
·         Ad hoc working groups

KULU's Cooperations and Partnerships
KULU – Women and Development has been active in project cooperation since 1981 in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Currently KULUs main cooperation partners are with MUSONET in Mali, focal point for the pan-African FEMNET/African Women’s Development and Communication Network, and Femmes pour la Paix et les Droits Humains (FPDH/Women for Peace and Human Rights) in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Further reading about our cooperation with MUSONET in Mali

Further reading about our cooperation with FPDH in DR Congo

KULU's work with the UN Millenium Development Goals and beyond
KULU worked on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agenda from their inception, including the financing for development process, the Millennium Development Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals from a gender equality and women’s/girls’ rights perspective, and always in close cooperation with Southern partners and international women’s rights networks.
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